Sentence examples for sand crossing from inspiring English sources

I push on, chattering across the rocks, plowing through the sand, crossing a basin of dried mud aglitter with half-buried gypsum crystals".

To advance understanding of this topic, a series of model experiments were performed under 1 g conditions on instrumented 20 mm diameter acrylic prototype pipes buried in dry Toyoura sand as well as a tyre derived aggregate (TDA) backfill trench surrounded by Toyoura sand crossing a vertical fault.

But chilled sand crosses the fine line between pampering and absurdity.

Fortunately, the U.S. is in a strong position to help starve Alberta's landlocked tar sands beast by stopping the flow of tar sands crossing our border.

The smugglers use low-tech methods in trying to cover their tracks, for example by laying mats or wooden planks across the sand paths, crossing them in sheepskin shoes or in shoes with the soles stuck on backward to make it look as if they were heading for Egypt.

Relying solely on improved tracking and avoidance is not enough … it is simply a technical form of sticking your head in the sand and crossing your fingers," Texas A&M PhD student Jonathan Missel told SPACE.com.

In British Columbia, over 100 First Nations have taken a strong stand against tar sands pipelines crossing their land and waters.

Caution demands that beyond rejecting the Keystone permit, President Obama order national security assessments on all tar sands pipelines crossing our border, and an immediate shutdown of the built-to-spill southern leg of Keystone XL in Texas and Oklahoma.

The Canadian pipeline company Enbridge, a rival of TransCanada, seems to have outsmarted TransCanada in the race to expand the amount of tar sands crude crossing the border by pipeline, coming up with a clever way to circumvent the State Department permitting process that has stalled construction of the Keystone XL.

He's left with a lot of sand to cross, with not much green to play with.

TODAY, Saadiyat Island is an elongated triangle of desiccated scrub and scorched sand criss-crossed by camel tracks.